Can art which is encouraging harmful behaviors possibly ever have the potential to result in people engaging in or continuing to engage in those behaviors? Or is this completely impossible? - eviltoast

Please don’t ask for examples thanks, the question is intended as general :)

  • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Depends on the person. A person with sociopathic tendencies is gonna listen to a song glorifying violence or play a video game doing the same and see it as encouragement. But that’s also only the really stupid and violent, and those people were probably going to do those things anyway.

    I think most people that find justification for violent actions from art would find other reasons to justify those things if they didn’t have the art to blame it on.